Aun
which he had revied
for money orders
compared
Closed
the
664 Crown
Agents.
accounts incorporated
with them it
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detection by making up false
Collector's
account & passing
off on the Audit Examiner receipts which had been given for Postal notes. He did the same
until the 8th November 1888 when he made the last payment for postal notes and embezzled
sums received
accrue
money
that they
had paid on letters of advice.
from the post office
$14665.81
paid into
as of
more than had been
the Treasury, a query
to the Acting
Postmaster General. Mr. Barender
all.
on the 10th
April made
on that
accounting in
1889 to 29, 224.
M. Freire
allowed him in violation
of the
rule
which requires
sums to be paid in weekly
to keep in his hands, even supposing that he had paid the
he took
balances then.
credit for longer.
necessary
to meet demands from the public.
57. When the
Accounts
for the Colony for the year 1888
were
account explaining the differences
this
Examiner
and certified by M. Freire the Accountant of the Post office.
In so
far
as
the item
it is fictitious conclusion we beg
52.
In
that
to submit
blame
although great
these defalcations
must rest on
M. Freire for
negligent examination of the
books
not calling for
explanations touching Postal notes yet
we are of opinion
these